We’ve gathered the 56 best depression quotes to help you interpret your feelings of sadness, and help you determine if you need to seek help and relieve yourself from depression.
#1. Don’t worry. Be happy”
#2. I tell people I’m tired but in fact, I’m depressed I tell people I’ll be fine tomorrow but I know, tomorrow will be worse. I tell lies every day and I know, I’ll not be able to stop it by myself. ”
#3. When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re alone.”
#4. Depression is feeling like you’ve lost something but having no clue when or where you last had it. Then one day you realize what you lost is yourself.”
#5. Depression sneaks up when I think I’m flying high and clips my wing, not both though because I effuse to let it take over every part of me. I am up again and enjoying the beauty and pleasure that surrounds me.”
#6. I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim”
#7. Don’t jump to conclusions, not everyone suffering from depression suffered some tragic loss or got raped at birth. Life is enough on its own, it’s enough tragedy that you need to wake up every day.”
#8. That feeling when you’re not necessarily sad, but you just feel empty.”
#9. You cannot depend on your spouse to be your entire happiness.”
#10. His love roared louder than her demons.”
#11. Inspirational quotes for people with depression I’ve always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you’re down can make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.”
#12. Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced…. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
#13. #Someday, someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you’ve never seen, they’ll look at you like you’re everything they’ve been looking for their entire life.” #Wait for it.”
#14. To have no energy or drive to do anything?”
#15. There is a hell believe me I’ve seen it”
Depression Quotes About Life
#16. Maybe death hurts less than life.”
#17. What’s wrong? I’m ugly. I’m fat. I’m a failure. I’m depressed. I’m suffering. I want to die. I hate this world. I hate myself. I’m imperfect. I can’t do anything right. I’m disgusting. I’m just not okay. And you don’t seem to care. Nothing, I’m fine.”
#18. No one wishes to have dark days, sleepless nights, grumpy mornings, and this endless dark tunnel with no sign that it ever ends. Depression is not a choice.”
#19. My silence is just another word for my pain”
#20. Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.”
#21. I’m tired of crying. I’m tired of yelling. I’m tired of being sad. I’m tired of pretending. I’m tired of being alone. I’m tired of being angry. I’m tired of feeling crazy. I’m tired of feeling stuck. I’m tired of needing help. I’m tired of remembering. I’m tired of missing things. I’m tired of being different. I’m tired of missing people. I’m tired of feeling worthless. I’m tired of feeling empty inside. I’m tired of not being able to just let go. I’m tired of wishing I could start all over. I’m tired of dreaming of a life I will never have. But most of all, I’m just tired of being tired.”
#22. I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.”
#23. Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
#24. When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love, have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it always.”
#25. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, sensitivity, and understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
#26. The worst part about depression is people who don’t have it they just don’t get it”
#27. Depression: tired of living and scared of dying.”
#28. The bravest thing I have ever done was continuing to live when I wanted to die.”
Sad Depression Quotes And Sayings
♥ “But you knew when she was sad the circles under her eyes got darker the sound of her voice got softer the size of her waist got smaller and her smile just disappeared.”
♥ “Hello darkness my old friend. – Paul Simon’s”
♥ “That’s the thing about depression: a human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end the fog is like a cage without a key.”
♥ “Find your potential what man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. Dr. Victor Frankyl”
♥ “A million words would not bring you back, I know because I tried, neither would a million tears, I know because I cried. Unknown”
♥ “If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation depression just is, like the weather.”
♥ “Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent. Elizabeth Wetzel”
♥ “People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. Being numb to emotions, being numb to life. You wake up in the morning just to go to bed again.”
♥ “You say you’re depressed – all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human. David Mitchell”
♥ “Don’t mind me. 0 I’ll just sit here, crying over yesterday. P.m. Harrison”
♥ “If you know someone who’s depressed please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation, depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do. – Stephen fry”
♥ “I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”
♥ “What if I feel this way for the rest of my life?”
♥ “My body and heart weren’t made for this. I’m tired of being tired and I’m tired of being sad.”
♥ “Life starts on the other side of anguish.”
♥ “No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over. -Iyanla Vanzant”
♥ “You choose hope, anything is possible. – Christopher Reeve”